A new kind of party craze has many Australians scrambling for invitations.
Crypto parties, where people gather to learn online encryption, are attracting everyone from politicians, to business people, to activists.
Two years after US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents from the National Security Agency exposing mass global internet surveillance, there is rapidly growing interest in protecting online activity.
There have been crypto parties in Brazil, Germany and the UK, and more than a dozen have already been held in Australia.
Apps like Wickr, Confide and WhatsApp have taken encryption out of the geek lab and to the masses. more